Documenting Their Lives, Telling Their Stories

Travels with Susie and Moses

Mr. Ed’s Great-Grandparents, Moses and Susan Sherman lived in Montana for many years during his employment with the Northern Pacific Railroad. Drummond was their home when Moses retired November 8, 1938.

We thought it would be fun to map the Sherman’s movement in Montana and to do so we dug out a stack of old Post Cards (yes, penny post cards) sent to them by their son Murry, daughter Martha and various friends. Because we were only able to track according to the mailing dates there’s some overlap in the years they received mail at a given location, but those cards told a story of their movement that we wanted to share. So here’s the map we put together… we hope you enjoy it. Oh, I should note that this graphic is one little section of a 1900 Northern Pacific Railroad map.

It was fun to note that one card was addressed to “Mrs. Sherman, 2 1/2 miles south of Drummond.”